Bail-ear for tapered buckets.



0. L. WAGANDT. BAIL EAR FOR TAPERED BUGKBTS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9.1910. v

Patented July 11, 1911.

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CHARLES L. WAGANDT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGN OR TO NATIONAL ENAM?ELING AND STAMPING COMPANY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF NEWJERSEY.

BAIL-EAR FOR TAPERED BUCKETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 9, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. WAGANDT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Bail-Ears for Tapered Buckets, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in bail-ears for flaring ortapered pails.

Buckets or pails are made in tapering form, the top being larger thanthe bottom and the wall of the bucket tapered from the top to the bottomto enable the buckets or pails to be nested one into the other. Innesting buckets, however, it is found that they frequently become sotightly wedged one within the other as to stick fast, and at such timesit is a ditflcult matter to separate them. The desideratum is to providetapered buckets with an inexpensive bail-ear that will prevent them,when placed one within another, from becoming tightly wedged.

The invention may be embodied in several forms, one form is to combinethe stopdevice with one or both of the ears to which the bail isattached.

One form of the improved device is shown in the accompanying drawing inwhich,

Figure 1 shows a broken portion of the side wall of a tapered buckethaving an attached bail -ear provided with the improved antiwedgedevice. Fig. 2 is a view of the same parts of Fig. 1 as seen in atransverse direction. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the wall of thebucket and of the bail-ear on the line 33. Fig. 4 is a side view of thetop parts of two tapered buckets in nested position.

The letter, A, designates the side wall of a flaring or tapered bucket;in the present instance the bucket shown would be made of sheet-metal,and has an outward-rolled toprim, 6. The wall of the bucket is flaringor tapered to enable one bucket to nest within another; a dozen bucketsmay be thus nested together to get them in small compass for purposes oftransportation.

The improved bail-ear comprises a single metal-plate whose lower partmay be attached by rivets or electric welding to the outer surface ofthe wall of the bucket below the outward-rolled top-rim, I), while theupper part, C, which has the eye for engagement of the wire-bail, cl,projects above the said top-rim. At each side is an upward-facingshoulder, g, which takes positlon under the said outward-rolled top-rim,b; the sides of the ear extend downward and constitute the lowermostparts, it, which are separated by a notch, 2'; between the two sides isan which extends vertically downward and its lower end terminates at thetop of the notch and above the bottom edges of the lowest parts, 71,,and said end forms an abrupt clown-facing shoulder, c.

When these tapered buckets are nested and form a stack containing twelvebuckets, the weight of all the upper buckets in the stack, rests on theclown-facing shoulders, c, of the lowermost buckets, and causes greatstrain thereon; it is therefore important to provide a construction forsaid shoulders, e, that will afford the requisite strength to withstandsaid strain. The formation of the outward-pressed flute, f, with itslower end cut off abruptly, supplies this desideratum.

It will be seen by reference to Fig. 4:, which shows the top parts oftwo tapered buckets nested, that the downward-facing shoulder, c, of thetwo bail-ears of the inside bucket is so resting on the top-edge 0r'rim, 5, of the outside bucket or on the top rim and also on theturned-down bail, as to prevent the inside bucket from being forced downwithin the outer bucket and therefore will prevent wedging. It will alsobe understood as to the inner bucket that the lowermost parts, it, ofthe ear which are below the end of the vertical flute, f, fit in thespace between the two buckets and cause the inner bucket to be centeredwithin the outer bucket and thereby holds the inner bucket from shiftingposition laterally and prevents one of the said flute shoulders, e, fromgetting jammed between the two buckets.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is,

1.- The herein described bail ear consisting of a stamped-up platehaving an upward-projecting eye for engagement of a wire-bail, and eachside extending downward and forming two lowermost parts, it, separatedby a notch, i, and provided withan outward pressed vertical flute, 7,whose lower end terminates at the top of the notch and forms adown-facing shoulder, e.

outward-pressed flute, f,

and above said bottom edges and forms a 10 down-facing shoulder.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES L. VVAGANDT.

Witnesses Gr. FERDINAND VoGT, CHARLES B. MANN, Jr.

2. The combination of a flaring or tapered bucket having :1 top-rim; anda hailezlr whose eye is above said top-rim and having two sides whichextend downward and iorm two lowermost bottom edges which are separatedat the center by a notch, and between said sides the bail-ear beingprovided with an outwardpressed Vertical flute Whose iower endterminates at the top of the notch Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor five cents' each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,Washington, D. G.

